Infrastructure Management Job Trends in the North of England

Infrastructure Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 226 239
Rank change year-on-year -21 +13 -60
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Management 14 61 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.13% 0.65% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.72% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 11 36 30
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,125 £54,125
25th Percentile £37,750 £43,438 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £62,500 £55,440
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +12.73% +1.02%
75th Percentile £68,125 £75,250 -
90th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £65,250
England median annual salary £68,736 £63,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.82% +10.87% +6.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Infrastructure Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,586 8,432 6,947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 81.52% 89.96% 90.69%
Number of salaries quoted 4,540 3,812 5,440
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -1.70%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,225 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Infrastructure Management job vacancy trend in the North of England

Infrastructure Management
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Infrastructure Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Infrastructure Management

Infrastructure Management
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Management in the North of England

Infrastructure Management
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Management within the North of England region over the 6 months to 3 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +11 9 £40,000 -42.86% 4
Yorkshire -19 5 £67,500 +22.73% 6
Infrastructure Management
England

Infrastructure Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (28.57%) Serverless
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Datadog
5 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
5 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) NAS
2 2 (14.29%) Network Security
2 2 (14.29%) WAN
3 1 (7.14%) DHCP
3 1 (7.14%) DNS
3 1 (7.14%) LAN
3 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
3 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.14%) VLAN
3 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) GitLab
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) CA Release Automation
2 1 (7.14%) CircleCI
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Developer
1 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Python Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Support
3 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Operational Risk Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Risk Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior IT Support
3 1 (7.14%) Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Technology Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) CSS
1 3 (21.43%) Django
1 3 (21.43%) FastAPI
1 3 (21.43%) Flask
1 3 (21.43%) HTML
1 3 (21.43%) React
1 3 (21.43%) Vue
2 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (7.14%) Software Packaging
3 1 (7.14%) Spring
3 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 6 (42.86%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
4 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 3 (21.43%) API Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
5 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis
5 3 (21.43%) Design Patterns
5 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (21.43%) Front End Development
5 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) Mathematics
5 3 (21.43%) OO
5 3 (21.43%) OOP
5 3 (21.43%) Software Architecture
5 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (7.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Firmware
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 3 (21.43%) Grafana
4 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.14%) Ansible
5 1 (7.14%) FortiGate
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 2 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Rapid7
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat